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During the month ending November 30, the Natural Resources portfolio managed to substantially outperform the IGE benchmark with the help of four outstanding trades. Selling California Resources (CRC) at $16.32 with a cost of $7.81, Fairmount Santrol (FMSA) at $4.84 with cost of $3.09, Baytex Energy (BTE) at $3.35 with

We decided to do something fun for this week’s Commentary. Everyone knows that this is a momentum- driven market and doing the same thing that others are doing pays off. However, at some point, from a technical/chartist point-of-view, a falling stock may just become too attractive not to jump on

From U.S. Thanksgiving 2015 and again in 2016, one of the industry groups that enjoyed a substantial price recovery in capital markets was Natural Gas. But, following the May-June 2017 price collapse and subsequent grinding down of prices of Natural Gas stocks, we are now wondering if the time is

Many very intelligent and successful investors have been dead wrong about the U.S. equity market rally for the last couple of years. The list of bearish billionaire investors continues to grow. Recall that these “smart money” investors turned fully bearish over the summer of 2016! The main argument of these

Two years ago, the U.S. Oil Fund (USO), which tracks the price of $WTIC (West Texas Intermediate Crude) closed at $14.08. At yesterday’s close, USO was $11.46, a drop of -18.6%. I wanted to examine how my recent Oiler investments had fared over the past 24 months. Interestingly, seven of

For reasons the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) cannot disclose, an investigation into my blogging and trading activities has occurred in the past month. As something like this has not come up in the 13.5 years I have been blogging or 9 years I have been trading professionally since coming out

Those who have studied market history can cite numerous examples of parabolic price action. In our August 25 Commentary, “Looking Into Our Crystal Ball”, we presented a few assets that have “gone parabolic” in recent history, along with the aftermath of the parabolic price movement. Among the assets we cited

Many people are surprised at the size of the Copper industry. Of all the metals, including precious metals, only the iron ore and aluminum industries are bigger. Some background: Using 2014 figures, Chile is the largest Copper mining country, with a 32% share of mined ore, followed by China (8%),

All this month, I have been posting articles on the Oil and Oilers, Gold and Goldminers and Copper and Copperminers here at billcara.com, at Williams Market Analytics and at 4-Traders.com. I hope my readers have found them both informative and, to this point, in-the-money. As part of the WMA Cara

The central banks of the United States, Canada, UK and Europe are heading inexorably toward economic tightening and higher rates, which helps clean up their over-extended balance sheets. Although there are many who disagree, policy-based action like this will probably have a negative impact on precious metal prices. In the